Tag: innovation
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“IT IS ENGLISH”
In 1985, during a visit to Hitachi, I asked why Japan—despite its engineering excellence—lagged in software. The answer was disarmingly simple: “It is English.” That moment revealed a deeper truth about the future of computing. Returning home, I proposed a radical idea: digitize everything and make it searchable. It seemed obvious. It was. Yet nearly…
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RETURNING TO THE BLEEDING EDGE
A simple experiment took me back to a place I first encountered in the 1980s — the “bleeding edge” of technology. This time, it was AI. A five-second silent video, generated from a poetic prompt, proved visually impressive but incomplete. It had no sound, no authorship, no meaning. So I added my own — music,…
Truth in Media 